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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had an active rebuttal for critics who say she isn’t fit for office. The freshman lawmaker posted video Friday of her cranking out pushups with Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.)during a recess from House hearings. “I needed to get my head back in the game, so Rep. @jimmygomezca and I did some pushups to get the blood pumping,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Instagram. Ocasio-Cortez said “she fell off the workout wagon” and is trying to regain her fitness. She revealed on Instagram last year that she led a healthier lifestyle before politics, The Hill pointed out. “I used to practice yoga 3-4x/week, eat nutritiously, read and write for leisure,” she wrote on Instagram. “[But] as soon as everything kicked up, that all went out the window. I went from doing yoga and making wild rice and salmon dinners to eating fast food for dinner and falling asleep in my jeans and makeup.”

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